Whether you’re embracing new silver growths or attacking them strand by strand with tweezers, gray hair is an inevitable part of getting older. “Just as the skin ages and the rest of the organs in ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

I love visiting with my grandma. But sometimes I have to talk loudly so she can hear me. I asked my friend Christine Portfors why that is. She’s a biologist at Washington State University. She told me ...

Many of us are resigned to the fact that we’ll naturally lose some of our hearing as we age, but there may be a way to slow that down. Scientists at the University of Virginia (UVA) have identified a ...

Advances in hair follicle cloning are accelerating in 2025 as breakthroughs in dermal papilla cell expansion move the science ...

Share on Pinterest A study discovered a new underlying mechanism with stem cells causing the hair to turn gray, which could lead to potential treatment. BONNINSTUDIO/Stocksy Hair follicles contain ...

Gray hair is one of the most recognizable features of old age. For most people, gray hair is inevitable. No matter how many times you attempt to dye your hair, the roots will continue to grow out gray ...

Research reveals that grey hairs are a small example of a cell choosing to bow out rather than risk turning malignant ...

While humans can regularly replace certain cells, like those in our blood and gut, we cannot naturally regrow most other parts of the body. For example, when the tiny sensory hair cells in our inner ...

The process, called cellular senescence, causes hair to “gradually lose its pigment over time,” he said. Strands that ...